Highest-paid coaches in Sweet 16: Slideshow

This is noteworthy: the nation's highest-paid men's basketball coach is not among the coaches who have guided their teams to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament.

While March Madness was at its unpredictable best last weekend – think Florida Gulf Coast University – more than half of the teams in the Sweet 16 are basketball powerhouses led by the nation’s highest-paid coaches. That’s based on salary numbers in an analysis by Celebrity Net Worth, an online site, and some research conducted this week by Jeff Bell, a colleague at Business First of Columbus, a sister publication of The Business Journal Serving Greater Milwaukee.

Seven of the nation’s 10 highest paid men’s college basketball coaches are heading into the prelude to the Final Four, including Marquette University's Buzz Williams. Click on the slideshow to see where he ranks among Sweet 16 salaries.

By the way, the University of Kentucky’s John Calipari ($5.4 million), is the top paid coach. The other two top 10 wage earners that didn't make the final cut of 16 teams are the University of Texas’ Rick Barnes ($2.4 million) and Purdue University’s Matt Painter ($2.3 million). In fact, none of their teams even qualified for this year’s NCAA tournament.